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Lighting the Olympic flame in a dress rehearsal in Greece, using the sun's energy Actresses playing the role of priestesses during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony. The Olympic flame is ignited some weeks or months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at the main site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece.
The flame-lighting, with its broad TV coverage — although the official stream shies from showing any form of protest — is a magnet for activists who want to grab headlines. And even if ancient Olympia can, in theory at least, be efficiently guarded, the route of the torch relay through Greece is too long to be protest-proof.
Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an ancient Greek priestess uses the sun to ignite a silver torch — after offering up a symbolic prayer to Apollo, the ancient Greek sun god. Instead, she used a backup flame that had been lit on the same spot Monday, during the final rehearsal.
Ignatiou has been involved with the ceremony for 36 years, as priestess, high priestess, assistant and then head choreographer since 2008. She takes in the criticism with composure. She’s still moved to tears when describing the flame lighting, but defers to her dancers to describe their experience of the five-month participation at practices.
The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Other famous final torch bearers include 1960 decathlon gold medallist Rafer Johnson, who became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics, [1] French football star Michel Platini (), heavyweight boxing champion ...
The French leg ended during the opening ceremony when it was used to light the Olympic cauldron. The cauldron was erected at the Tuileries Garden's central fountain. Site of Olympic Cauldron 2024, Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Olympic Cauldron 2024, Jardin des Tuileries in Paris.
A priestess prays to a dead sun god in front of a fallen Greek temple. If the sky is clear, a flame spurts that will burn in Paris throughout the world’s top sporting event. On Tuesday, the ...
No one knows what music in ancient Greece sounded like or how dancers once moved. It takes place in southern Greece at a site many still consider sacred: the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Forty ...